The worst fears are confirmed for Adecco employees! The interim giant has just admitted that, following the hack it suffered in November, personal and banking data were stolen. And even used…
Decidedly, the pirates are in good shape at the moment! It’s the turn of Adecco, the giant Franco-Swiss specializing in temporary work, to find themselves in turmoil. Indeed, the company had been the victim of a hack last month and, if it initially sought to reassure its customers, some of them had already paid the price. The CGT Adecco had nevertheless announced in a press release have entered “the management of Adecco to summon him to explain himself and to take drastic measures for the protection of data“. It turns out that, as expected, the damage was more extensive than the company had let on. In an email sent before the Christmas weekend to its workers, it reveals that the data some of them have been stolen by a third party, including their bank details… “Some of your personal data present in one of our information systems (surnames, first names, e-mail addresses, social security numbers and bank details) have potentially been disclosed. We deeply regret this and offer you all our apologies for the difficulties that this could cause“, reveals Adecco in the message. This is all the more problematic since several Next Impact readers have complained of having received said mail when they stopped working for the company more than seven years ago, maximum duration of …
Adecco hack: fraudulent bank withdrawals
This revelation is not really one, given that, since the hacking, several employees have declared to the union that they have suffered unknown withdrawals from bank accounts. According to a hundred testimonies, an unknown company called Solfex France SASU took the sum of 49.85 euros – a sum sufficient to make the end of the month complicated – on several bank accounts. According to public data, it is a wholesale company based in Paris, and which, coincidentally, was created in August 2022. A Facebook group titled ““solfex France sasu” scam problem with Adecco Francewas quickly created to bring victims together and now has over 1,600 members.
In November, following accusations by the CGT Adecco, the company had quickly ensured years a statement that no link could be established “between these fraudulent direct debits made by a third-party company and the missions of our temporary workers” during their internal investigation. An opinion that the union did not share, which considered for its part that it was obvious that this scam followed the hacking of the company’s data. “Various leads show that this data did indeed leak on the darknet, the day after the hacking was discovered, and the samples began”, she explained. The letter sent by Adecco is ultimately only an admission of the free circulation of personal and banking data of employees on the Dark Web… It remains to be seen how many people are really concerned, knowing that the group has more than 4 000 permanent staff and more than 138,500 temporary staff on assignment. The case is still ongoing.